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Mental health advocates and service providers cringe at what budget cuts portend for their charges – as if the stigma of mental illness isn’t enough to create political antipathy. Anyone who gets around these cities can see the fruits of mental illness in a wide variety of societal outcasts – rage, drug use, homelessness, and crimes for which their mental illness is no defense.

What mood are you in right now? Maybe you’re relieved that summer is finally here, or frustrated because instead of enjoying it, you’re sitting in a cold office with the air conditioning blowing in your face. Whatever you’re feeling, Minneapolis shares your pain, or your joy. A new public art piece that taps into the emotions of the city went up on display on June 13th at the Plaza of the Minneapolis Convention Center.

The AMPERS web site has over 1,000 stories, featuring some of the most creative, passionate, and talented Minnesotans you know—and may not know—gathered from all over the state. Join web site manager Todd Melby as he visits Pam Without Boundaries:http://www.kfai.org/pamwithoutboundaries Monday morning, 11am, to share some of those stories.

On Friday, January 29th at 11am on KFAI’s Catalyst:catalyst, two guests talk about the push to END Minnesota’s Moratorium on new nuclear power plants: LISALEDWIDGE of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research’s (IEER) working on their plan to be Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for Minnesota’s Energy Policy (by 2050) and KENPENTEL, longtime environmental activist, founder of the

Gia Vitali from Minnesotans United for All Families will talk about defeating the marriage amendment & equal rights for same sex couples in MN, a young filmmaker interviews LGBT teens, Shades of Yellow celebrates New Year and current LGBT issues are highlight’s of this Fresh Fruit show on Thursday, March 29 at 7pm.

Thursday, April 2nd, Minnesota’s Poet Laureate Robert Bly joins the Write on Radio crew to talk about an upcoming conference on—Robert Bly!—April 16-19 at the University of Minnesota. It includes a keynote by Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. More information is available at www.lib.umn.edu/bly:http://www.lib.umn.edu/bly.